Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights?

Tuesday June 7 at 6pm Central Time on Tell Somebody on 90.1 FM KKFI in Kansas City , Robert McChesney returns to the show.

McChesney is co-editor of an important new book, WILL THE LAST REPORTER PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS - THE COLLAPSE OF JOURNALISM AND WHAT CAN BE DONE TO FIX IT.

—The Library Journal writes that "This collection highlights journalism's role as a crucial component of democracy and an institution that needs to be reinvigorated... anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book."

On this June 7 pledge drive edition of Tell Somebody you'll have the opportunity to get a copy of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights - The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done About It, for a $60 credit card donation to KKFI called in during the show at 888-931-0901.

Tune in Tuesday, June 7, at 6pm Central on 90.1 FM KKFI in Kansas City, streaming around the world at www.kkfi.org

“As the basis for self-government is an informed citizenry, and as the Fourth Estate is the institution with primary responsibility for making an informed citizenry possible, the existential crisis for news media is, in fact, an existential crisis for self-government.”
-from the introduction

In Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights, celebrated media analysts Robert W. McChesney and Victor Pickard have assembled illuminating perspectives on the crisis in journalism, by today’s most incisive and influential commentators. This accessible volume provides a comprehensive portrait of the newspaper industry’s predicament - including a concise history of modern journalism, a hard-hitting analysis of the structural and financial causes of news media’s sudden collapse, and deeply informed proposals for how the vital role of journalism might be rescued from impending disaster.

Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the in the Department of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books on the media including the award-winning Rich Media - Poor Democracy and a co-editor (with Ben Scott) of Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism.
McChesney is also the host of Media Matters, a weekly radio show heard on WILL AM 580 in Urbana-Champaign (Media Matters)

Tune in to Tell Somebody Tuesday, June 7, at 6pm Central Time on 90.1 FM KKFI in Kansas City, or stream the show live at www.kkfi.org to hear Robert McChesney and make your donation to KKFI to get your own copy of this important book.